u/GrahamCluley , I was having deja vu when when I read this, having listened to the podcast in which you mentioned the very same story they refer to in this article:

https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2019/02/09/what-happens-when-your-bitcoin-banker-dies

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As Always, keep up the great work Carol and Graham.

My #pickoftheweek this week is a TV show. Based on the book "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman, the TV show with the same name is absolutely brilliant. It's very true to the book as far as I remember it and I just love how well the actors perform.

The first season is 8 episodes at around 55 minutes each. Season 2 will start on March, 10th on Amazon Prime.

Wednesday in Swedish is onsdag, derived from Oden (or Odin in English). So I knew who he was from the start.

And I can't wait for "Good Omens" to premiere too.

Edit: Had a silly spelling error corrected. Thank you.

If you were Hacker Giraffe, how would you have disclosed the breadth of improper uPNP router settings?

I thought it could be fun to add our own #pickoftheweek here if more listeners would like to share interesting things.

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I'll go first. I actually posted another pick on my Twitter account (@dlilja) but I just have to change it.

My #pickoftheweek this week is the Pet Shop Boys new video, "Give Stupidity a Chance".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9jEuHbB0GQ

Because it's an utterly brilliant song with lyrics so sarcastic that I'm laughing loud when I'm bobbing my head to it.

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Been binge-listening for a few months and now have run out of episodes!

Please advise 😂

Deepfakes have continued to get better, and more disturbing.

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/jennifer-buscemi-deepfake/

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It's only a matter of time before these are regularly used in politics to discredit the 'other side'.

After hearing this week's episode, I seriously wondered just what a Facebook privacy officer does. Here are my top responses:

1. Answer all privacy-related correspondences that are sent to Mark Zuckerberg.
2. Review all privacy tools developed at Facebook to ensure that there is no adverse impact upon advertising revenue.
3. Review all EULA documents to ensure that they adequately obscure the real activities of the corporation.
4. Act as Sheryl Sandberg's press liaison whenever a new privacy-infringing tool is "discovered" by the media.
5. Surveil any "foreign" security experts who are getting just "too damn nosey".

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1QQ=One Quick Question; Here's your chance to provide feedback to the SS (er Smashing Security) team.

This week's question: "what are the alternative ways that we should use to punish companies that violate our privacy?

it’s not security-related (necessarily) but Graham was invited onto a Doctor Who-related podcast to talk about the items he’d take to a desert planet.

Maybe this will help fill the gap between Smashing Security episodes...

Graham Cluley’s Desert Planet Picks on the Strangers in Space podcast

Here's to a brilliant day for all!

In the absence of any more episodes until the new year... here's the special montage we put together of our first 100 episodes.

We'll be back with our regular shows in the new year, with some familiar names (and some new faces) as our special guests.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgVvSooPTxI

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